The Norwegian Children's Book Institute is a national education and knowledge center for children's and youth literature, established in 1979. The institute's aim is to educate children's and youth book authors as well as communicators, and it focuses on research and dissemination of knowledge to both the reading field and society in general.
The educational offer includes writing and communication, as well as online studies in contemporary literature. The institute also offers themed packages for literature promoters and arranges courses and study visits for students. In addition, the institute runs a dissemination laboratory and presents the illustrator of the month to highlight the importance of illustration in children's books.
The Norwegian Children's Book Institute is also active in artistic development work and has a sustainability library that promotes reading and writing. Furthermore, they produce a podcast that deals with children's books and the dissemination of literature, and they arrange open seminars to share research-based knowledge about literature for children and young people.